characterize

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City officials have sought to characterize the measure as closing a loophole that gave travel companies like Hotels.com and Trivago a discounted bed tax rate.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 4, 2026

"We were able to isolate an intermediate structure from our ruthenium complex formation reaction and characterize this with single-crystal X-ray diffraction. Surprisingly, we found the structure to be doubly ring-slipped," says Takebayashi.

From Science Daily • May 22, 2026

“Assets which the administrators characterize as missing were held through nominee structures for the benefit of MFS and its creditors,” the spokeswoman said, adding that the administrators had been given detailed information about those assets.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 12, 2026

Both executives, interestingly, characterize Viking as in the business of marketing first, cruising second.

From Barron's • Apr. 15, 2026

And each time, he displayed the same level of grief, what people who heard him would characterize as inescapable sincerity.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel